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  • From: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Placeholders: )$R w/o antecedent
  • Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 11:30:55 -0500

Dear Peter,

Well, I don't agree that )$R can represent an antecedent at all, singular or plural, in the sense you meant. At least, this is unproven if the example put forward, Ezekiel 23:28, is anything like the best example. And this is what the original discussion was about. You can't argue ")$R can represent either a singular or plural antecedent, therefore )$R can represent an antecedent". You need to come up with examples where )$R unambiguously represents an antecedent, i.e. where it fills a noun slot in the main clause. This is necessary to refute my theory that )$R is simply a conjunction i.e. it does not fill a noun slot in either main or subordinate clause.

HH: I'm not following you. There is an entire section of examples in BDB under numbers 1-7. Conjunction comes with number 8. In the Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew, see the first meaning given, pages 419-20: "as a pronoun introducing relative clause, which, that, who(m)." They have other sections with other similar functions. I am so familiar with this usage. It's in all the grammars I've ever seen (e.g., GKC #36; WOC #19.3) and is just basic Hebrew knowledge.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard





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